After my death our beloved Church abroad will break three ways ... first the Greeks will leave us as they were never a part of us ... then those who live for this world and its glory will go to Moscow ... what will remain will be those souls faithful to Christ and His Church.~St. Philaret of NY

The 18th regular Church and National Assembly of the Australian-New Zealand Diocese of the Free Serbian Orthodox Church, on Saturday, December 22, 2018, at the suggestion of His Grace Bishop Ambrose (CPI of Greece), who feeds the rest of the Uniproved Baptist Church, the pattern, which will go to the pattern, which will go to the pattern, which will go to the pattern, which will be left to the body, which will be left to the pattern Churches.

The next day, on Sunday, December 23, in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas Monastery, at the Divine Liturgy, led by Bishop Ambrose of Methona (CPI of Greece) and Bishop of Melbourne (ROCOR), Archimandrite Christopher was called to be the bishop of Christian.After the Liturgy, a procession was performed, a service of Serbian Glory was served, and a solemn common meal was held.

Patriarch Filaret revealed the truth about the relations of church hierarchs and the KGB (the USSR State Security Committee) in the Soviet Union.According to him, all church leaders were forced to cooperate with the authorities.

Otherwise, they could not fulfill their duties fully - such decisions did not have legal force, the patriarch told Radio Liberty .He noted that the hierarchs could not appoint a single priest without the consent of the special services.

“There was not a single bishop who had no contact with them.If he had no contact, then he was not a bishop.Therefore, if someone from those bishops says that he did not have contacts (with the KGB - ed.), Then this means that he is telling a lie.I know that for sure ... Without the consent of the KGB, neither bishops nor priests were appointed.It was necessary to coordinate with them all appointments.Therefore, there was a registration.The decree of the bishop was invalid if there is no registration.Therefore, in order to have registration, it was necessary to agree with them so that they would agree to the initiation of one or another bishop and the appointment of one or another priest. ”

Filaret said that the KGB demanded to violate the secret of confession and to inform the congregation.For non-compliance threatened with execution.But the patriarch noted that after a sharp refusal, the threats had ceased.

Alexander Metropolitan of Riga and All Latvia, he is Alexander Ivanovich Kudryashov was recruited in 1982 by Alexander Ischenko, an employee of the 5th Division of the 4th Division of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the Latvian SSR, who assigned his agent the pseudonym Reader. As is known, the fifth section was formed in 1967 to combat “ideological sabotage”.

Kompromat.lv has already told , it was his supervisor, Metropolitan Alexander, who ordered that restorative property be managed. Former Commissioner for Religious Affairs at the Council of Ministers, former KGB lieutenant colonel Alexander Ischenko (Aleksandrs Iščenko) has created two commercial organizations for this purpose. In particular, according to Сrediweb.lv, in February 1992 the company (sabiedrība ar ierobežotu atbildību) "FONDS PC" was created, and then, in October 1993 - "FONDS-LC".

In 1996, Alexander Kudryashov . Alexander Kudryashov, on behalf of the Synod, issued to the organization of Alexander Ischenko Power of Attorney No. 98, in which he authorized to "manage and receive income from residential buildings with outbuildings located at 14 Pils Street, Riga, and Maza Pils, 11, belonging to the Latvian Orthodox churches".

Documentary evidence that the current Moscow Patriarchate does not continue the historical Russian Orthodox Church, but was founded on September 8, 1943 by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

The most terrible thing that God-fighting power has done in Russia is the appearance of the “Soviet Church,” which the Bolsheviks presented to the people as the true Church, having driven the Orthodox Church into catacombs and concentration camps.

Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky),

from the letter Fr.To Victor Potapov on June 26 / July 9, 1980

It is known that after the death in 1925 of Patriarch Tikhon in the USSR, it was impossible to convene a Council and restore church authority in a canonical, legal way, that is, by the Resolution of the Bishops' Council of the Local Russian Church.Therefore, at the head of the Church Administration there were different, rather random, hierarchs, forcedly appointed, "according to a will."One such primate "in the will" - the former renovationist Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky), unable to withstand the pressure of the Soviet authorities, gave up and submitted to the Soviet authorities.In 1927, he issued a Declaration in which he avowed his complete subordination to the communist authorities, which served to divide the Russian Church.Because of this Declaration, with the administration headed by Metropolitan Sergius, the Russian Church Abroad and the Catacomb Church in the homeland interrupted communication.Despite the fact that Metropolitan Sergius obediently fulfilled all the desires of the God-fighting government, his position and the status of his subordinate parishes were in a very deplorable state, since the Soviet government persistently led the matter to the complete destruction of faith in God in the USSR, and the chances of survival of the structure headed by him were practically non-existent.

This situation radically changed in September 1943, when dictator Joseph Stalin, for political gain, decided to form an "Orthodox church" subordinate to himself.To this end, Stalin, in the schism ruled by Metropolitan Sergius, established his hierarchy of power - below the person in charge of the clergy - Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Sergius (Strogorodsky).The head of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the USSR Government, G. G., became his immediate superior.Karpov, who himself did not take decisions on important issues, but was the only mediator between the Soviet government and the Moscow Patriarchate.In turn, Karpov was under the jurisdiction of the Soviet government - the staff of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSRV.M.Molotov.Molotov at that time was the highest authority of the executive branch for the Moscow Patriarchate.At the same time, the Moscow Patriarchate continued to remain under the supervision and guardianship of the NKVD-KGB - the same Karpov being the chairman of the Council for the Russian Church was at the same time the head of the 5th department of the 2nd Directorate of the NKGB-MGB of the USSR and was subordinate to the Minister (People's Commissar) of State Security .WITH.Merkulov, from whom he also received instructions and orders.

The priority area of activity of the newly formed Moscow Patriarchate, according to Stalin’s plan, was to become international relations and the creation “through its own channels” of the positive image of the USSR in the eyes of free countries, as well as raising the patriotic spirit of the population in the conditions of war within the USSR. Also, very importantly, the Soviet government in this way gained complete control over the newly formed structure, which it did not have in the Catacomb and Foreign Parts of the Russian Church.The leadership of this structure (the episcopate) received the privileges and privileges of the Soviet nomenclature, which they used and enjoy right up to the present.Although the organization under the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Sergius widely spoke in favor of the USSR in the political arena even earlier, since the adoption of the declaration in 1927, but now this activity has entered a new stage.According to some reports, Stalin's meeting with the next newly elected Patriarch Alexy (Simansky) was devoted exclusively to the political tasks facing the MP.

Stalin made a decision to organize the MP on September 4 (actually, on September 5 at night), and after 2 days, that is, on September 8, this decision was carried out through the Bishops' Council assembled by the authorities from the 19 hierarchs they had chosen time consisted of 28 bishops).

Such actions, of course, can not be called canonical and legal in terms of church law.There is a church norm, according to which, the bishop who received the episcopal authority in the church with the help of worldly leaders "may be exterminated and excommunicated, and all communicating with him" (see Ap.30; I Univ. 4; VII Univ. 3; Laodik. 13).In this case, it is not just about "worldly leaders," but about the atheist government, which has the goal of destroying the very faith in God on the territory of the USSR.

The formation of the Moscow Patriarchate further approved the schism in Russian Orthodoxy, as a result of which the true Church of Christ was represented by free parts of the Russian Church independent of the God-fighting people – the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Catacomb Church in the USSR, which had no connection with each other because of the persecutions .

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All subsequent "Soviet patriarchs" were elected and supplied exclusively by the Soviet authorities.According to the testimony of Konstantin Kharchev, Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs in 1984-1989: "Not a single candidate for the post of bishop or other high position, whether a member of the Holy Synod, received it without the approval of the CPSU Central Committee and the KGB."*Below is a document on the election of Patriarch Alexy I , which leaves no doubt about the nature and methods of such an election.The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia did not recognize any of these patriarchs.

+ Metropolitan Agafangel

*Evgenia Albats and Kathryn Fitzpatrick.The state within the state: the KGB and its power in Russia- thepast, present and future.1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-5, p. 46.

P.S.This note is a brief selection of archival materials, which I hope will be replenished and refined.

Documentary film "Stalin and the Third Rome" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqm54ka1sM

Документальный фильм "Сталин и Третий Рим"

From the Scriptures

Church canons about such actions

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Documentary film "Stalin and the Third Rome" in Russian⇦⇦⇦⇦

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqm54ka1sM

Документальный фильм "Сталин и Третий Рим" 45 minutes

Part 1 of 4

Part 2 of 4

Part 3 of 4

Part 4 of 4

From about 31 minutes of the film - about the Stalin bribing the Eastern patriarchs: the Soviet Patriarch Alexy Simansky received from Stalin to bribe the patriarchs, except for icons and panagias from museums, 200 thousand dollars, of which the Alexandrian patriarch received 25 thousand dollars, and Jerusalem - 35. Further it is said that Constantinople received 50 thousand dollars, but not from this money, but through the USSR Embassy.Further in the film it is said that this money, allegedly, was not enough for bribing.But it is not said that they were enough for the corrupt Greek patriarchs to stop communicating with the ROCOR and fully recognize the Moscow Patriarchate.This, in essence, is a fact of moral decay and introduction to the heresy of the sergianism of all the eastern patriarchs.

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From the Scriptures

Worship the Lord your God and serve Him alone (Mt. 4.10; Lk 4.8).

No one can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other;or one will be zealous, and about the other not to despise.You can not serve God and mammon (Mt 6.24; see Luke 16.13).

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Church canons about such actions

Apostolic Rule 30: "As soon as the bishop, worldly commanders having used it, through them will receive the bishop's authority in the church: let him be ejected and excommunicated, and all who communicate with him."(see also I Universe. 4; VII Universe. 3; Laodic. 13).

Apostolic Rule 34: "It is proper for the bishops of every nation to know the first in them, and acknowledge him as the head, and do not exceed anything that exceeds their power without reasoning: to do to everyone only what concerns his diocese and the places belonging to it. But the first also do not create anything without reasoning for all. For there will be consensus, and God will be glorified in the Lord in the Holy Spirit, Father and Son, and the Holy Spirit. "(see also I Un. 4, 6, 7; II Un. 2, 3; III Un. 8; IV Un. 28; Trul. 36, 39; Antioch. 9).

1971.09.14.The definition ofthe Sobor of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of 1971on the election of patriarchs in Moscow.

The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia 1/14 September 1971 had an opinion on a meeting in Moscow from May 30 to June 2 of this year, calling itself the All-Russian Church Council for electing the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. This meeting declared Metropolitan Pimen elected to the aforementioned See.

Having discussed all the circumstances of this meeting, the Council of Bishops representing the free part of the Russian Orthodox Church, came to the following conclusion:

1. For the election of the Head of the Local Church, it is necessary that this election be made according to the laws of this Church and be free, being the true expression of her voice.

2. In 1917, the All-Russian Council adopted a resolution on the restoration of the Patriarchate in Russia and elected His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon to the Patriarchal Throne.

The structure of this council included all canonically appointed bishops of the Russian Church, representatives of clergy and laity elected by the dioceses and invited by the Synod, on the basis of the Provision made by it, representatives of monastic clergy and Orthodox Theological Academies. All representatives from dioceses were freely elected at the three-level elections: parish, charity and diocesan meetings. The very election of the Patriarch was made according to the order that secured the freedom to indicate candidates for election. The latter were scheduled by secret ballot, with many candidates initially indicated. Of these, three candidates, among whom one was finally elected by lot, were listed by successive selection of the most votes. Such an electoral system, ensuring full freedom and approved by the All-Russian Church Council, has never been canceled by a free and equivalent Council. Therefore, the election of the Patriarchs, carried out in a different order, not being free, does not express the voice of the Russian Orthodox Church and is not legitimate.

Such illegal elections include not only the elections of the current one, who calls himself the Patriarch, Pimen, but also the elections of his two predecessors (Sergius Stragorodsky and Aleksey Simansky). Their supporters cannot, in justification of these elections, speak about the external conditions of persecution of the Faith as interfering with the implementation of the legal order of elections, because, despite the evidence, they constantly reiterate about the supposedly complete freedom of religion in the Soviet Union. Similar statements were made by the now elected Patriarch Pimen. In all three elections of the Patriarchs, no one dared and was not able to name any candidate, other than those previously indicated by representatives of the civil authorities.

3. Violation of the legal succession of the highest Church authority in the Russian Church began in 1927, when the then Deputy Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, Metropolitan Sergiy of Nizhny Novgorod, violated the instructions of Metropolitan of Krutitsky, whom he replaced and signed an agreement with the atheist civil authority, on the control panel, he had failed to put the control panel on the control panel, which he replaced and signed the agreement with the atheist civil authority, in order to put the control panel on the control panel, which he replaced and signed the agreement with the atheist civilian authority, he violated the instructions of the Metropolitan Sergius. nor the other oldest hierarchs.

The Soviet authorities began to imprison all the dissenters with Metropolitan Sergius of the hierarchs, thus clearing the way for him to head the Russian Church. He, for his part, disregarding the oldest hierarchs, composed the Synod for his personal purpose and, during the lifetime of Metropolitan of Krutitsky Peter, who by position was in charge of the Moscow Diocese, illegally appropriated the title of His Beatitude Metropolitan of Moscow with the right to wear two Panagias. In 1943, at the direction of the atheist and the worst persecutor of the Church of Stalin, he, in fulfillment of the political plans of the latter, hastily, in 4 days, assembled a Council of the 19 bishops who were freed by Stalin from prison for a special selection of bishops, counting Metropolitan Sergius himself. the bishops who elected him patriarch. In 1945, after the death of Patriarch Sergius, Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad gathered a Council, to which representatives of autocephalous Churches were invited. The council, besides the ordained bishops shortly before, consisted of representatives of the clergy and laity selected without elections, provided for about the election of the Patriarch, and obediently following the instructions of atheistic civil authority, unanimously elected Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad as Patriarch.

Upon the death of the latter, the same illegal procedure was made this year so-called. The All-Russian Council for election as Patriarch of Metropolitan Pimen, not so much known for piety and theological knowledge, since he did not receive any theological education, as by his diligence in executing instructions from atheistic authorities aimed at the destruction of the Church and the political plans of the Soviet Government.

4. All elections of the Patriarchs in Moscow, beginning in 1943, are invalid on the basis of the 30th Rule of the Holy Apostles and the 3rd Rule of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, according to which, “having used the bishop of worldly superiors, through them, the bishopric authority in the Church will be erupted and excommunicated and all communicating with him. " The significance that the Fathers of the Ecumenical Council attached to such a crime is evident from the very fact of the unusual for church church rules of double punishment for violating it, i.e. not only the eruption of dignity, but also excommunication.

The famous interpreter of canons, En. Dalmatian Nicodemus, gives the following explanation to the 30th Rule of the Holy Apostles: "If the Church condemned the illegal influence of secular authorities in setting up the bishop at a time when the sovereigns were Christians, then all the more, therefore, she had to condemn it, when the latter were pagans and , the more severe the punishment she had to impose on the perpetrators, who were not ashamed to seek help from the pagan sovereigns and their subordinate authorities in order only to receive the bishopric. The present (30) rule means such cases. " If, in refutation of this provision, examples of some of the Constantinople Patriarchs erected to the Throne at the discretion of the Turkish Sultans are given, then it can be said that no anomaly can be recognized as the norm and one violation of canons cannot justify another.

Taking into account all the above grounds, the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, as representing the free part of the Russian Church, defines:

The election of Pimen (Izvekov) by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia on the All-Russian Church Council in Moscow that calls itself Moscow on June 2 of this year, by virtue of the 30 rules of the Holy Apostles and the 3 rules of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, recognizes as illegal and invalid his acts and dispositions are not valid.

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The True Orthodox Churches of Romania, and Bulgaria, and with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and with the Synod in Resistance, are called by the Grace of the Lord to coexist in Mysteriological communion.

from §4 of “Schedule of Steps in the Union Process” Feb. 2014

VL AGAFANGEL PRAYER

Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Theotokos and all the Saints: keep our souls unharmed from the destructive influences of globalism, ecumenism, and sergianism, and give all of us the strength to endure the latest onset of persecution of the Church of Christ. Amen

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"I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.”

St. John Chrysostom

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"If we have a good priest (or bishop), we give thanks to God. If a bad one, we endure him".

- old Russian saying

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"And here is something to which I would like to draw your attention to – something about which very many do not think about. Father Archimandrite Constantine, whom probably many of you know, the reposed editor of the journal “Orthodox Rus’”, a profound Christian mind, considered that the most terrible among all the achievements of the communists was that the communists created their own false-church, a soviet church which they shoved onto the unfortunate people in place of the genuine Church which went underground into the catacombs. Do not think that I am exaggerating or that Father Constantine was exaggerating!

Once, in the year 1918, a Pan-Russian Church Council was held. At this Council, the entire Pan-Russian Church together with its first holy hierarch, Patriarch Tikhon anathematized, excommunicated from the Church not only the theomachists and godless ones themselves, but also all those who would collaborate with them."

~St. Philaret of NY

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"To the Russians abroad, it has been granted to shine in the whole world with the light of Orthodoxy, so that other peoples, seeing their good deeds, might glorify our Father Who is in heaven, and thus obtain salvation for themselves. But if it does not perform this purpose and even abases Orthodoxy by its life, the Diaspora will have before itself two paths: either to be converted to the path of repentance, having acquired forgiveness through prayer to God and being reborn spiritually and to being capable of giving rebirth to our suffering homeland; or else being rejected by God and remaining in banishment, persecuted by everyone, until gradually it will degenerate and disappear from the face of the earth."

from Vladika John's report to the All-Diaspora Sobor in 1938

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The apostasy of our times, to a degree unique in Christian history, is proceeding not primarily by false teachings or canonical deviations, but rather by a false understanding of Orthodoxy on the part of those who may even be perfectly Orthodox in their dogmatic teaching and canonical situation. A correct "Orthodoxy" deprived of the Spirit of true Christianity—this is the meaning of Sergianism, and it cannot be fought by calling it a "heresy," which it is not, nor by detailing its canonical irregularities, which are only incidental to something much more important.

- Russia's Catacomb Saints

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Let it not be thought, however, that I affirm that it is necessary to prize every peace. For I know that there is a splendid disagreement and the most destructive unanimity. Yet one must love a good peace which has a good purpose: unity with God.

-St. Gregory the Theologian

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... To pious Christians the fact that the world has fallen into godlessness is to them obvious, and they are ready to see it as an unfortunate historical inevitability ...

Professor Viktor Trostinkov

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If you want to have assurance that you are saved, repent now that you are young and healthy and it is manifest that you left sin while you were still able to sin. But if you persevere in sin into your old age, why then you did not leave sin, but rather sin left you.

St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain

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Live in peace not only with your friends, but also with your enemies; but only your personal enemies, and not the enemies of God.

St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves

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Judge not according to appearances, but judge righteous judgment.

St. John 7:24

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"If Russia is not ressurrected, a new Golgotha threatens the whole world."

Priest Vladimir Evsukoff 1980†

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A man who does not express a desire to link himself to the latest of the saints (in time) in all love and humility owing to a certain distrust in himself, will never be linked to the preceding saints and will not be admitted to their succession, even though he thinks he possesses all possible faith and love for God and for all His saints. He will be cast out of their midst, as one who refused to take humbly the place allotted to him by God before all time, and to link himself to that latest saint (in time) as God had disposed.

St. Symeon the New Theologian

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SCOBA, to which world orthodoxy gives such great significance, reproaching us for not belonging to it, actually is in no way a canonical organ. The Russian Church Outside of Russia was invited to take part in these conferences; however, our Church refused to send representatives there after clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate were invited. "We never and nowhere will sit at one table with them; by this our spiritual communion with the Universal Church is not broken."

Archpriest George Grabbe 1969

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"Let us always thank the Lord that we are in the Holy Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which throughout the 80 years of its existence has trodden the straight, royal path of God, without ever turning aside and losing its way."

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The passions lying hidden in the soul provide the demons with the means of arousing impassioned thoughts in us. Then, fighting the intellect through these thoughts, they force it to give its assent to sin. When it has been overcome, they lead it to sin in the mind; and when this has been done they induce it, captive as it is, to commit the sin in action. Having thus desolated the soul by means of these thoughts, the demons then retreat, taking the thoughts with them, and only the spectre or idol of sin remains in the intellect. Referring to this our Lord says, 'When you see the abominable idol of desolation standing in the holy place (let him who reads understand)... (Matt 24:15). For man's intellect is a holy place and a temple of God in which the demons, having desolated the soul by impassioned thoughts, set up the idol of sin. That these things have already taken place in history no one, I think, who has read Josephus will doubt; though some say that they will also come to pass in the time of the Antichrist.

Philokalia

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There are three things that impel us towards what is holy: natural instincts, angelic powers, and probity of intention. Natural instincts impel us, when, for example, we do to others what we would wish them to do to us (cf. Luke 6:31), or when we see someone suffering deprivation or in need and naturally feel compassion. Angelic powers impel us when, being ourselves impelled to something worthwhile, we find we are providentially helped and guided. We are impelled by probity of intention when, discriminating between good and evil, we choose the good.

Philokalia

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The outward Gospel of social idealism is a symptom of loss of faith.

Fr. Seraphim Rose

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Impurity of intellect consists first in having false knowledge, ...

Philokalia

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Isn't Marx really the third of a trio with Darwin and Freud as a practical source in the war against revealed truth?

Fr. Seraphim Rose

Letters, 1972

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To: ROCA members from the MP

"You have to understand that you have long been in a false church, which implants in its members' souls, a false spirituality, which in turn takes root and grows stronger and stronger, the longer a man stays in it."

Bishop Athanasius, 2014

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Mankind has gone mad, and we see with horror the abyss into which it is being drawn. Let us lay aside every worldly care, and let us fall down in prayer and readiness for the dread Judgment of the Lord. Death will not come with bombs and poisons. Death has already come and take up residence with us and in us, and has made corpses of us, Mammon has overwhelmed this sinful world, which is dominated by Queen Science, Lucifer himself, which with one hand makes medicines and machines for man's foolish happiness and with the other terrorizes him by means of the bomb! Such is the sorry state of knowledge and the agony of the world through and through. Let us lift up our hearts.

-Photios Kontoglou (†1965) letter to Dr. Cavarnos dated 5/10/57

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"Psychopaths are a superior subspecies. We transcend humanity. We are Nature's Supermen. We deserve the subservience and availability of everyone around us. Luckily, every year 100-million people are born throughout the world. We have 100-million new choices every year."

-Sam Vaknin, self-realized psychopath

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Our Saviour placed the Church in the world in order to save the world, and Satan is always trying to place the world into the Church in order to destroy the Church.

attributed to Desert Fathers

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"If you see lying and hypocrisy, expose them in front of all, even if they are clothed inpurple and fine linen."

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